Never Embarrass Yourself Trying To Unscrew A Wine Bottle Again

By cwaltersDecember 4, 2009

The horrible thing about screw-cap bottles of wine, says the website butterflywineopener.com, is that they suck all the romance out of bottle opening. But lucky you! “The Butterflyâ„¢ solves that by flawlessly and expediently opening any screw cap bottle while retaining the elegance of traditional wine service.”

It lets you tell your date, “I like to buy pointless junk.” It also lets restaurateurs perform an uncorking fake-out on their guests, although if those guests later notice the threaded top of the bottle they may have some questions.

The product was “designed for keeping the romance alive,” as you can see in this amazing demonstration video. In fact, please watch the video. You may learn a thing or two about bottle opening that you never knew before.

if it were sharper image, pushing down the wings would have secured the cap AND unscrewed it… considering you have to look like a jackass and unscrew the whole thing, I judge this to be Chinese made crap.

Ironically, there are those who argue that the Stelvin closures are better for preserving wine than corks, which can corrupt the drink. Then there are those who say that the cork is essential for aging the wine. So go figure.

Most wines don’t need “aging” and a regular cork can fail about 10% of the time. The screw cap is much better for regular table wine. Now that some decent wine is available in the box from the unpretentious Australians, that’s usually how I buy it. No oxygen means the wine will keep several weeks after it’s opened. And my city doesn’t recycle glass anymore, so the packaging is much more environmentally friendly. Plus, I don’t really see exactly how much I’m drinking. Win-win-win :D

You must have gone to one of those high falutin schools where you drank corked wine. We had Strawberry Boones Farm and Mad Dog 2020 that screwed off. I’ll stop now, I think i am getting a memory hangover

All you need is a cordless drill and big screw. Then a pair of pliers and a strong guy. Or take it down to the science lab and freeze it in liquid nitrogen, and the cork pops right out. Not that I’ve ever tried that.

I know nothing about wine, and I think $25 for something like that is rather retarded. BUT. If I were to be able to get one cheaper, as a gift, whatever. I think it would make opening bottles of my 2009 collection of Pepsi a more romantic experience. Plus everyone would have a good laugh.

If you all donate to me, I’ll buy one, and test it on other bottles of things besides wine. I wonder if it work on those horrible plastic bottles of cheap vodka.

You know, I could see this, except that you still do the twisting. If they made it so that it had a little vice-grippy switch in the back to grab the cap, and pulling the wings down activated a twisting mechanism — that’d actually be cool. I could see people paying significantly more for that, because it could hide that it was a screwtop, if the people weren’t keeping the bottle and weren’t particularly observant.